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Wealth divide 'could lead to rioting'
Daily Mail ^ | 20th June 2007 | IAN DRURY

Posted on 06/20/2007 6:14:36 PM PDT by Brakeman

Rioting could break out on Britain's streets because of anger at the widening gap between rich and poor, it has been claimed.

Sir Ronald Cohen, himself one of the nation's richest men, warned that violence could flare if the chasm between the haves and have-nots was not closed.

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"You are too rich, you are making too much money and you are not paying enough tax."

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; classwarfare; greatbritain; poor; rich; uk; unitedkingdon

1 posted on 06/20/2007 6:14:38 PM PDT by Brakeman
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To: Brakeman
"You are too rich, you are making too much money and you are not paying enough tax."

OK, I can make no money and pay no tax. Either way, you aren't getting any more taxes. ;)

2 posted on 06/20/2007 6:15:42 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Brakeman

Is there no longer a middle class in Britain to buffer the difference between the elite and the impoverished?


3 posted on 06/20/2007 6:17:11 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Vote for Duncan Hunter in the Primaries for America's sake!)
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To: Brakeman
Wealth divide 'could lead to rioting'

Oh? Is England a Communist state?

Do they "divide" wealth there or is it - gasp - earned?

4 posted on 06/20/2007 6:18:13 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Brakeman

The taxes generated from the ‘rich’ attempting to operate a business pay for the recipients benefits. What do they call food stamps across the pond?


5 posted on 06/20/2007 6:18:21 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Brakeman

The rich provide jobs for the poor. It’s the way it works and always has.


6 posted on 06/20/2007 6:19:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Brakeman
The rising Muslim population does not work, and expects to get paid for it

There will come a point, real soon now, where the ability of the middle class to hold up the welfare state will be at an end

7 posted on 06/20/2007 6:20:02 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Open Season rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI)
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To: Brakeman

Just last month “The Economist” was praising Tony Blair for reducing the disparity between rich and poor in the UK. A legacy of the Thatcher years our British tutors wrote.


8 posted on 06/20/2007 6:23:46 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Brakeman

This is exactly why here in the USA we will never give up our guns!


9 posted on 06/20/2007 6:24:39 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Paperdoll
"Is there no longer a middle class in Britain to buffer the difference between the elite and the impoverished?"

The classic commie "conspiracy" is to undermine the middle class with corrupt values and a poor economy. In this condition, the buffer is weakened and feeds large numbers of disillusioned working class into the "impoverished" category. Then the impoverished can have their Marxist/Maoist revolution.

Revolution completed, the first to be shot are the 'useful idiots' who perpetrated the initial debasing of our values, ie. the liberal intelligentsia, artists, homosexuals, etc.

That those folks are committed communists makes no difference- quite the contrary, they pose a real threat to the state in their proven ability to lead and to think. At the very least their lives will be threatened by petty quarrels and in-fighting within the new political system.

Again: their reputation as "good little commies" will not save them from the new communist government.

How many millions more must perish in gulags and killing fields before Leftists accept this? Well, they don't seem to care... just as long as they have their trendy urban lifestyles to delude and entertain themselves.

10 posted on 06/20/2007 6:43:43 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: cripplecreek
"The rich provide jobs for the poor. It’s the way it works and always has."

The poor offer services that the rich can't bring themselves to do. I am right behind the working man in holding them hostage to labor. Not in the form of unions, which always turn crooked, but by other powerful means.

11 posted on 06/20/2007 6:49:30 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Brakeman

Another Juneteenth article?


12 posted on 06/20/2007 6:51:07 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Brakeman

Sir Richard the Bumpkin

It aint the class divide.

It is simply found in the following—

Is your country inhabited by more that one mooselimb?

You are doomed fool.


13 posted on 06/20/2007 7:21:25 PM PDT by petertare (--)
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To: Brakeman
Rioting could break out on Britain's streets because of anger at the widening gap between rich and poor, it has been claimed.

Russia 1917, France 1789....those type of riots really worked out well, hasnt it?

14 posted on 06/20/2007 7:29:57 PM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Brakeman
"You are too rich, you are making too much money and you are not paying enough tax."

This is too brain-dead to even reply to. Call me when the comet comes to pick you up, you whackjob. Taxes cannot cure your mental retardation.

15 posted on 06/20/2007 7:37:51 PM PDT by Sender (I know I left my country around here somewhere. Reward if found.)
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To: Brakeman

Well stop importing poor people from third world countries who breed like rabbits and create lots of poor children.


16 posted on 06/20/2007 8:13:32 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: SauronOfMordor
There will come a point, real soon now, where the ability of the middle class to hold up the welfare state will be at an end

And not just in England, if Shamnesty is forced through.

17 posted on 06/21/2007 6:50:17 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really needed?)
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